Sharpshooting phenom Stephen Curry is the first Golden State Warriors player to win the NBA All-Star Three-Point Contest. He tallied 27 of 34 possible points before months later propelling the Warriors to the 2015 Finals win.
The next year, fellow Splash Brother Klay Thompson got the Three-Point Contest win with the same score.
But neither Curry nor Thompson — or any other player in professional basketball history — has done what Allie Quigley has done in the WNBA Three-Point Contest. Entering the event in 2018 as the defending champion, Quigley got the repeat title win and set a new record, with score of 29.
The highest score for an NBA player was the Phoenix Suns’ Devin Booker (2017-18), with 28.
Larry Bird is the only player in All-Star history, NBA or WNBA, to accomplish a three-peat Three-Point Contest win (1986-88). But the high score in those days was 30 and Bird never recorded a score higher than 22.
Whether Quigley three-peats or not, she’ll still hold the record after tonight — unless she (or another WNBA player) sets a new one.
The 2019 WNBA All-Star Weekend tips off at 7 p.m. ET on ESPN.
In tonight’s other event, a revived Skills Challenge will pit WNBA bigs like Brittney Griner against guards like Odyssey Sims.
